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In my 14 to 15 year old life in the late 50s I worked as a clean-up boy in the neighborhood butcher shop up on 5th. Ave.,
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It was the dead of winter. I took my father's shotgun from his closet. He kept it wrapped up in one of those khaki-colored gun tote bags that had a zipper running the whole length of the gun. It was a 16-gauge, single action shotgun. Anyone could tell wha
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Kerryn saved us from ourselves really. Would you be reading this had she eaten it?
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Above our bellies we are beautiful women with luscious breasts. Where there is skin, believe me, it is flawless, irresistible. Most of us have long hair, but there are some among us who keep their heads close cropped for aerodynamic…
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His eyes are closed yet restless, as if too many thoughts loop beneath the lids.
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There are stranded people just like us, that's Not necessarily what I'm looking for. Negativity won't pull us through the Barbed-wire halls of hate. And even if I Was the only one, I wouldn't want you To look any different in the mirror. I'm older …
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Maybe it might be best to, you know, have less frequent meetings.
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The Italian was late. She was supposed to come into the store, meet him in the back, and arrange to take the last of his liquor.
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I'm not sure whetherI drink to numbthe pain or toactually feelsomething.
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We can’t just bomb Berlin or Dresden,/
Nagasaki or Hanoi, to make things safe
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They make you work
For your pizza in Italy
You have to slice it yourself
While wearing a gas mask
To ward off the cigarette smoke
From every neighboring table
While chasing away the
Mosquitos and the pigeons
The flies and the gypsy r
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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.
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Ey’, it’s where I followed him down
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The laptop has ruined the sanctity of the library. And so I get up and go see Queen Jane.
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Hits start, enters numbers, runs the program / Does this again one hundred times / Then takes a break
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In the state that the stars fell on,
Love and I stumbled upon bits of God
where he forgot sky and moon, too.
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I can’t deny you’re beautiful, though it’s unsure how many of your defects are fudged by my myopia.
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Compartments trickle together/
in light diffuse and unreliable./
Fortify yourself against the day.
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You left paint and blood smeared on the wall.
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Look at this castle: fashioned from the sturdiest sand, pages of my name
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I'm hearing a noise. I can't see it. It's hiding and seems to be coming from the other side of the creek. With boots on I slowly wade across. The water makes its light lapping sounds. Reaching the bank, I search for the noise. It must have a face, suntanned and warm, that I…
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where will we be/ when it happens?
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Today I’m feeling crabby and haggard and technology makes it easy to get to the point.
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War Stories #1The Germans didn't like that theJews had such beautiful women.War Stories#2There must have been a war between the good witches and the bad witches. It's the only thing that would account for such troubling times.Woman With Yellow HatWhy did…
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When I was younger, I tried very hard to be myself, but it never worked. I'd close my eyes, wait a beat, open them and slowly bring them into focus. This is the new me, the only me. Never worked, not once. It could only last a minute or two, so I…
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She tossed the big bird into the air. It wobbled, then flew away.
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We were talking in the dark in my room. He lay on a mattress on the floor. He came for a sleepover.
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Maybe it takes as much fortitude
To forget
As it does
To remember.
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